2011 New Year’s Resolution – Allowing the Impossible
For 2011 I’m not setting any specific goals.
Instead I’m going to focus on living my life according to my new values, but there is one New Year’s resolution I want to set for myself.
It’s not a specific goal or target for any one area of my life, but rather a way of being.
What I want to foster is the state of being open to new possibilities.
What does that mean?
Well, essentially it’s about being open to new possibilities for how reality works.
Think about how a child sees the world. They are curious and always open to new possibilities, not set in their ways of thinking. Children don’t discount the “impossible”.
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ~Lewis Carroll
Let me give you a few examples of what I mean.
Ask yourself these questions:
Is it possible to make a million dollars in one day as an Internet Marketer?
Is it possible that there is a single cure for all disease in the world, including the so called “incurable” ones like AIDS or Cancer?
Is it possible for a person to become invisible through meditation?
Is it possible for us to connect to parallel universes?
Is it possible to make a $100k / month as an affiliate marketer with a simple one-page website?
Is it possible to make $500k / month as a Blogger?
Is it possible to build a muscular body with just 10 minutes of exercise per day?
Is it possible to heal a broken limb spontaneously?
There are just some examples of what I mean. I’m not saying any of these are possible or impossible. I’m just using them as examples of the type of stuff I’d like to re-explore in my life.
For example, if I ask myself “Is it possible for us to connect to parallel universes?” and let’s just say that my logical mind says “No, it’s not possible.” then I want to explore that in more depth and ask myself “How do I know that? When did I decide this? What proof do I have that it is impossible?”
Or when I think about the possibility of making $500k/month as a Blogger, I want to explore the possibilities of that in more depth.
There really is no single specific direction I want to go with this. I want to simply just keep a much more open mind this year to new possibilities.
One of the reasons I’m doing this is because in the last few years especially my mind has really been opened and stretched as far as what I believe to be possible, but I think there is a lot of room for improvement here.
Meaning, I’m still mostly very skeptical about “impossible things” and it takes a lot of convincing and personal experimentation for me to be convinced that something is real.
For example when I first heard about muscle testing, I honestly thought it was total BS. I found it insulting to my intelligence that it could work. When I first read “Power vs Force” I thought it was a ridiculous concept so I tossed the book aside and labeled it as “quackery” in my mind.
Then one day I went to see a Naturopath who used muscle testing as a way of determining food allergies. I didn’t know he did this when I set the appointment. In fact, I didn’t know he was going to do muscle testing until I was sitting in his room and he just started doing it.
What happened next blew my mind. He told me to hold my arm up and hold it strong as he pushed down on my arm while testing different types of foods for allergies. My mind was determined to not fall for this “quackery”. I held my arm strong, determined he would not be able to push it down.
Then, after a few “strong” responses my arm went “weak” during one test. This totally blew my mind. It’s as if someone else was in control of my body. I felt a “shift” in my arm muscles and my arm went weak.
Previous to this moment, my mind justified muscle testing as simply the practitioner pushing down on the arm harder when trying to get a “weak” response. Once I actually experienced it, I knew that wasn’t the case.
That was my first experience with muscle testing being something that actually works. During my drive home from the naturopath that day my mind was totally blown.
Today, I totally accept muscle testing as something that works and I use it almost on a daily basis when I do my PSYCH-K balances.
What if I have muscle testing a chance right away instead of labeling it as “quackery” for years and years until I “accidentally” ran into it in that naturopath’s office one day?
What if I accepted energy healing earlier in my life?
What if I accepted Law of Attraction earlier in my life?
What if I accepted psychic abilities earlier in my life?
This is my New Year’s Resolution for 2011 – to be open to and test out a lot more things that my mind might typically prematurely label as “impossible”.
That doesn’t mean I’m going to abandon reason and just accept every crazy claim out there as true, but it just means I’m going to be more open minded to give things a chance before dismissing them and trust my intuition to guide me along the way.
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I really like what you have to say here. I am sure you are no stranger to James Arthur Ray as you speak of the Law of Attraction. I believe it is not “accident” that I have found this site and I look forward to future posts. It is possible because I AM.
Great Post! It is inspiring.
Recently I’ve been asking myself the ‘what if’ question. ‘What if I could….?’. It opens up so many more possibilities. And since I don’t know what the outcome will be, I just have to trust myself, search out new ways to do things, and see for myself what happens. I have always been open to new modalities when it comes to fitness. This year I will be even more open and explore other areas of my well being. It’s just another limit to push…
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That is pretty interesting. While I doubt you can get ripped in 10 minutes a day, haha, I think it would be really interesting to take apart a few of these common questions on the public stage.
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Pete Sisco has a book on static contraction which claims to build muscle in 10mins.
Beachbody has the 10 Minute Trainer from Tony Horton.
I’m not saying these work, I haven’t tried them, but I’m just saying that it is not outside the realm of possibility.
I have also heard about studies done which showed that athletes who visualized working out built as much as 30% muscle mass as compared to those who actually worked out. Meaning, they put on 3lbs of muscle without even lifting a single weight, as compared to those who put on 10lbs of muscle actually working out and they did it just by visualizing.
These are just a couple of snippets that popped into my mind, but I haven’t actually really looked into this question yet.
What if it was possible?
Here Yet , I am not making any New year resolutions but I want to concentrate more to my work
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Great post Paul! and a Happy New Year!
For me I’ve always tended to have an open mind about Law of Attraction (or Inner Programming/Manifesting as it was called before The Secret). However, I seemed to believe it worked for other people, not me. So this weekend I was watching a DVD from an EFT workshop where a woman was demonstrating how to bend spoons and to my amazement I could do it! (I tried bending the spoon before the exercise and again a few hours later and could not budge it).
There’s a lot of scams out there, but don’t let that put you off from experiencing life’s mysteries.
Wow, that’s pretty cool. Could you point me to which video this was? I’d love to see a demo of this.
Yeah, the muscle testing thing works. I heard about it first from Wayne Dyer, but I beleive he found it in Power Vs. Force. I do it with girls during the first kiss. I tell them about the test, then when things are heating up, I have them hold up there arm and ask: “Do you want to kiss me?” When they say no there arm always goes weak then I swoop in and kiss them. It’s a great use of the muscle test and its very very charming. As for being open to possibilities, I agree that we must remain receptive and open to all things. But my new years realization was a little different. I realized that goals and motivation are products of the ego and the true key is to let go and let the universe express itself through you. When you can do that (and that includes being open minded to all things) then you dont even need goals because abundance and success will come to you with almost no effort at all on your part. Just live in the flow and all those things you were striving for before you let go will finally come to you. So my new years resolution is this: LET GO.
Awesome. I know exactly what you mean. That’s a great resolution.
Hey Paul, Happy New Year to you. I like your new year’s resolution, its something I should do as well actually, and also be more outgoing in order to be open to more things. As far as myself, just like you don’t really have much of a specific target but the main thing I wanna do in 2011 is build on what I’ve done in 2010, and have my best year yet.
-Jean
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I also have not really made any new year’s resolutions for myself as they’re never easy to remember and follow but I have decided to just try and be a better person in all aspects of life. I want to try and improve every step of life.